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Who they are hiring are a bunch of kids from GDE level education who’ve been in the military. The very same we stupidly call “heroes”, when all they’ve done is join an increasingly mendacious military service branch.

These kids are the breading ground for Rambo wannabees who wear aviator sunglasses and shoot our dogs. The USA, after defeating two mighty foes in 3.5 years in the forties, cannot call itself a military superpower in the first decade of the 21st century while dithering our resources in Afganastan and Iraq for the past 10 years. We’ve bred these high tech warriors to do exactly what they’re doing...dropping out of high school, joining the military, being trained to kill with extreme prejudice, not allowing them to fight legitimate wars, and then hiring them in disproportionate numbers into local law enforcement organizations, where they trample on the rights of the public that they are sworn to serve, but have no knowledge of the rights that the public has.

“Thank you for serving your country”, my ass.

"Who they are hiring are a bunch of kids from GDE level education who’ve been in the military."

I attended a police academy and did some patrolling as a reserve during the '90s. Saw the insides of several departments in various cities then. They weren't like police departments of the past. They didn't like veterans at all. The few who were hired were treated poorly (gossip, etc.). Not long ago, a neighbor cop, after hearing about my little bit of National Guard combat specialty service, asked me if I was like "Tim McVeigh."

It's highly doubtful that most police departments favor veterans any more--especially enlisted, non-officer veterans from combat specialties. [Whole lot of vanity and political correctness going around.] In the "us vs. them" games of politics today, veterans are one of the subgroups of "them."

Most police departments also require a bachelor’s degree, preferably in a related field (e.g., criminal justice). But I’m sure they’d be fine with a degree in women’s studies, social work or psychology.